Compared to white adipose tissue, brown adipose tissue has:
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Correct answer: A denser capillary network and greater sympathetic innervation.
Brown fat is highly vascularized to facilitate the rapid distribution of heat to the rest of the body. It also receives dense sympathetic innervation to trigger thermogenesis via norepinephrine release.
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